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Guest Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Let vs leave

Do I LET the car in the driveway or LEAVE the car in the driveway?
  

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You LEAVE the car in the driveway.

  • You LEAVE the car in the driveway.
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You LEAVE the car in the driveway.Emotion: automobile
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You let the car in the driveway means you are driving it, you leave the car in the driveway means you leave your car there because of some mechanical,... problems. Did I catch your point?
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Thanks for expanding on that, LL Emotion: smile
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Hi LL, I got some doubts:

"You let the car in the driveway means you are driving it"
- I didn't get "let" with "driving it" very well, would you explain it again in other form? What is the connection between "let" and "driving it"? Btw, shouldn't it be "on the driveway" instead of "in the driveway" or can I use both?

About Let vs Leave:

In my point of view, "L
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Dear Abbie, please come to my help while I'm trying to find similar examples of a different usage of "let", as in my response! I let my car into the driveway means that I entered the driveway. Correct me Abbie if I'm wrong.
And about the preposition Lucato, here is what I've found from the Cambridge Online Dictionary: I parked in the drive. ("drive" is the short form of "driveway".) So, it's
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Guest,
I've moved your post to "General English grammar questions"
You'll get more readings/answers here, I think.
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Let = to allow or permit something.

"You let the car into the driveway"

So, in LL's example, someone is driving the car, and you allow it into the drive, perhaps by opening the gates, or saying that the person driving can leave it there.

I think you can use either 'on' or 'in' here.

The simple past of the verb 'let' is - 'let'
• I did let my family kno
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@ LanguageLover
Thanks, I got it. It helped me.

@ abbie1948
Hi Abbie, thanks for your help too. Btw, English insn't my native Language, so I got a new doubt
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Hi again Lucato. You're quite right, you can use those forms to emphasise!
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Yes, Lucato - sorry. You do use these to emphasis, as LL says.

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